Peter Cooley

American poet and professor

Peter Cooley

Born| November 19, 1940
Detroit, Michigan
Occupation| Poet and Professor of English
Nationality| American
Period| 1960s-present
Genre| Poetry
Notable works| The Company of Strangers, 1975

Peter Cooley (born November 19, 1940) is an American poet and Professor of English in the Department of English at Tulane University. He also directs Tulane's Creative Writing Program. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he holds degrees from Shimer College, the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa.[1] He is the father of poet Nicole Cooley.

## Career

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Prior to joining Tulane, Cooley taught at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. He was the Robert Frost Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 1981.

## Poetry and awards

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Cooley has published several books of poetry with the Carnegie Mellon University Press.[2] He received the Inspirational Professor Award in 2001 and the Newcomb Professor of the Year Award in 2003.[3] On August 14, 2015 he was named Louisiana's poet laureate.[4][5][6]

## Bibliography

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### Poetry

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Collections

* Cooley, Peter (1975). The company of strangers. University of Missouri Press.
* The Room Where Summer Ends (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1979)
* Nightseasons (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1983)
* The Van Gogh Notebook (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1987)
* The Astonished Hours (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1992)
* Sacred Conversations (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998)
* A Place Made of Starlight (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2003)
* Divine Margins (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009)
* Night Bus to the Afterlife (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2014)
* World Without Finishing (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2018)
* The One Certain Thing (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2021)

List of poems
Title  | Year  | First published  | Reprinted/collected

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Company of the motel room  | 2013  | Cooley, Peter (November 4, 2013). "Company of the motel room". The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 35\. p. 59. |

## References

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1. ^ The Literary Encyclopedia Accessed August 13, 2008.
2. ^ Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Titles Archived 2010-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Accessed August 13, 2008.
3. ^ Peter Cooley's faculty page, Tulane University. Accessed August 15, 2015.
4. ^ Nola.com editors (August 15, 2015). "Tulane professor Peter Cooley is Louisiana's next poet laureate". The Times-Picayune. Retrieved August 15, 2015. `{{cite news}}`: `|last1=` has generic name (help)
5. ^ "Louisiana Poet Laureate". Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
6. ^ "Louisiana". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 30 July 2022.

## External links

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* Peter Cooley listing in The Literary Encyclopedia
* Peter Cooley’s faculty page, Tulane University
* Video of Peter Cooley reading from Sacred Conversations at Tulane, circa 1998 on YouTube
* Peter Cooley author page at Virginia Quarterly Review, with links to poems

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Poets laureate of Louisiana

* Emma Wilson Emery (1942-1970)
* Ethel Green Russell (1970-1973)
* Dr. George William Noel Cooper (1973-1976)
* Henry Thomas Voltz (1976-1980)
* Jean McGivney Boese (1980-1988)
* Pinkie Gordon Lane (1988-1992)
* Sylvia Davison Lott Buckley (1992-1996)
* Jean McGivney Boese (1996-2004)
* Brenda Marie Osbey (2005-2007)
* Darrell Bourque (2007-2008; 2009-2011)
* Julie Kane (2011-2013)
* Ava Leavell Haymon (2013-2015)
* Peter Cooley (2015-2017)
* Jack Bedell (2017-2019)
* John Warner Smith (2019-2021)
* Mona Lisa Saloy (2021-present)

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